As Jones points out, since the draft lottery's inception, only two other players have played in as few games as Melo after being selected in the first round -- Troy Bell and Pavel Podkolzin.

The expectations for Bell were higher considering his stellar collegiate career. The C's took him with the 16th overall pick hoping he'd be the perfect point guard to pair with Paul Pierce. Instead, he was out of the league and relegated to playing overseas for the rest of his professional career after a brief stint in the NBA D-League.

Podkolzin, the 21st pick in 2004, is yet another big who never materialized into what the Dallas Mavericks had hoped he'd become after trading for him on draft night in 2004. His six games spanned an agonizing two seasons, and he scored just four points and added nine rebounds over that span.

He never returned to the NBA and spent the rest of his playing career in his native Russia.

Interesting point by Jones there, but we just don't have enough of a time frame to be slapping a title like "biggest draft bust" of any era, let alone the lottery era, like that on Melo.

I posed the question to some readers on Twitter and while they weren't exactly defending Melo, a lot of names spilled out before his when using the "bust" label.

And, how could we leave out Darko Milicic!! He was the No. 2 pick in 2003. Some guy named Carmelo was No. 3. Chris Bosh went 4 and D-Wade went 5."

Fab isn't even the biggest NBA Draft bust out of Syracuse in recent times. Jonny Flynn takes the cake on that one as he was the No.6 overall pick by Minnesota. To be fair, Flynn's career was derailed by injury, but he still qualifies for that title over Melo right now.

Even Wes Johnson, who was a No.4 overall pick, has to rank higher on the bust scale than Fab as expectations are higher for a lottery pick than a late-first rounder.

Fab will get more chances to stick on a roster, especially with that 7-feet tall and 255 lb frame he carries.